Hi everybody,

Thank you Nemo for your good wishes! I am really looking forward doing this full time and working with all of you!

I have just started looking into WLPA and the legal aspects but for me the first logical step seem to be to identify what we lack knowledge about and need to get a deeper understanding of. To do so I created a list on WMSE's wiki where you can write up any legal questions that you think is relevant when organizing the competition. Should the list include any more fields or something, please help out and change it. When we have a few though questions I will bring them to Europeana and see if they can help us out answering them (they have something like an judicial help desk for their partner organizations (of which WMSE is one) where we can send questions). I think that this is a really good opportunity to get some straight answers to what we can and cannot instead of endless discussions and guesses on what is and isn't allowed.

Also, I have a few good news! I talked about the idea of organizing this competition with a number of people at the Europeana Plenary in Leuven (which I attended last week together with two other people from WMSE ) and I received very positive responses. Amongst other a representative from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Greece showed great interest in cooperating with us on this. To cultivate this we would of course need someone from Greece to carry the torch and get in contact with them. Is there anyone from Greece on this list that would be interested in helping out with this? Do you know anyone that might?

Finally, if you are at all interested in helping out with organizing this competition in your home country, please write me an email about it! It would be great if we could start working with this a little bit as soon as possible to make the most out of the event and not miss any opportunities!

Thank you for your help,

John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
Email: john.andersson@wikimedia.se